744 Journal of the Asiatic Socicty of Bengal. {December, 1911. 
58. About the beginning of the third century B.C. the_ 
contentions of the ‘‘ Successors ’’ in Western Asia had deprived 
the eastern portions of Alexander’s empire of all guidance from 
head-quarters, and naturally left to themselves, a powerful — 
centrifugal tendency was engendered. India was the first to 
assert its independence, but the others shortly followed, and 
about 256 B.C. we find Parthia and Baktria disowning their 
allegiance. Both these populations were largely Getic ; Parthia, 
indeed, in a great measure belonging to the ‘* Hoch’’ or Germanic 
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but Diodotus alongside Hellenised Gothic forms as Theodorus, 
Theodosius, etc., points unmistakably to the Getic Tiu(d)- 
in Baktria as being of a blond type, with fair hair, abundance 
supersession about 215 B.C. by one Euthydémus, who apparently 
had some claim to Greek, if not Macedonian nationality ; and it 1s 
curious to find him when upbraided with having fallen off from 
his allegiance, pleading that it was not against his Syrian liege 
that he had re , but against Diodotus, the real offender 
he having really brought back the kingdom under Greek rule. 
He did more, for, as Strabo (XI. xi. 1) informs us, he and his son 
Demetrius conquered more nations than Alexander, and these | 
conquests were achieved ‘‘ partly by Menander, and partly °Y- 
Jemetrius, son of Euthydemus’’; they got hold of, in fact not 
only Pattalene (Patala in Sindh) but of the kingdoms of Sarat iS 
and Sigerdis (apparently Sagara and Kach) which constitute - 
the remainder of the coast. The important fact here )8- 
that Demetrius succeeded in carrying his conquests to Gujerat 
ba 
the sovereign who carried his conquests into 
ry can only have been at the expense of Part 
